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 The regulations where women are concerned do not end here. Regarding making love, our text prescribes the following rules:

"From a maiden who makes advances to a man of high caste he (the king) shall not take any fine; but her who courts a (man of) low (varna) let him force to live confined in the house."

"A (man of) low (varna) who seeks a maiden (of) the highest (varna) shall suffer death. He who seeks One of equal (varna) shall pay the nuptial fee if her father desires it" (viii, 315-16).

Let us now turn our attention to inequalities and discriminations in the criminal law. On this matter our text has a good deal to say.

"With whatever limb a person belonging to an out-